Why Supreme Court Must Not Reverse Its Judgement in Zamfara – PDP

Why Supreme Court Must Not Reverse Its Judgement in Zamfara – PDP

POLITICS DIGEST – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised the alarm that the All Progressives Congress is arm-twisting the Supreme Court to reverse the judgment that gave it victory in Zamfara state governorship election.

The PDP on Saturday, March 21, called on the apex court to maintain its avowed finality in all its verdicts regarding election petitions in 2019 polls.

In a statement issued by the PDP national publicity secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, the party said the Supreme Court should dismiss the pending application by the APC.

The statement read: “The PDP is aware of the efforts being made by agents of the APC to blackmail and arm-twist the Supreme Court to commit a judicial summersault and give them judgment through the back door.

“But our party, the generality of Nigerians and in fact the justices of the Supreme Court know that the court has no option before it than to dismiss the application.

“This is because the Supreme Court had consistently decided on the finality of judgments reached at the court, which it reaffirmed in its judgments on the Bayelsa and Imo state governorship elections, where the apex court dismissed the applications for review on the ground that it lacked jurisdiction to review its own judgment.

“So the inevitable fate of the APC application on Zamfara is to be dismissed. It cannot have any life before the Supreme Court. That is why the Supreme Court had no business in the first place reserving judgment on the matter.

“In fact, all issues bothering on review were never reserved for judgment but dismissed because of Supreme Court’s belief in the finality and infallibility of its own judgment.

“Our position is that the Supreme Court should resist the APC and abide by its own verdict of not reviewing any judgment already delivered by it.”